A Sombre Experience

The Red Museum

This museum commemorates the genocide of the Kurdish people by Saddam Hussein.

There are bullet holes in this building left as a reminder of the struggle for freedom. 

 This cell held up to 85 men at one time. Women and children were held in another building.

This long hallway has 182,000 mirror shards on the walls - representing the 182,000 souls murdered and has 4,500 lights on the ceiling representing the 4,500 villages which Saddam wiped out.
We also saw torture chambers and a gallery of  photos of people killed with mustard gas.
A very sobering exhibit.